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Diagonal   /daɪˈægənəl/   Listen
Diagonal

adjective
1.
Connecting two nonadjacent corners of a plane figure or any two corners of a solid that are not in the same face.
2.
Having an oblique or slanted direction.  Synonyms: aslant, aslope, slanted, slanting, sloped, sloping.
noun
1.
(geometry) a straight line connecting any two vertices of a polygon that are not adjacent.
2.
A line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric.  Synonym: bias.
3.
An oblique line of squares of the same color on a checkerboard.
4.
(mathematics) a set of entries in a square matrix running diagonally either from the upper left to lower right entry or running from the upper right to lower left entry.
5.
A punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information.  Synonyms: separatrix, slash, solidus, stroke, virgule.



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"Diagonal" Quotes from Famous Books



... its course to the river. It ran south past the corner of the Treasury Building for the matter of a hundred yards or more, and then broke south and west across the White Lot between the White House and the Monument. In the end it abandoned this diagonal flight and soberly took to the center of a street that lay to the west of the White House, and followed it to ...
— The President - A novel • Alfred Henry Lewis
... hound, his nose low, uttered a deep, bell-like note and struck on the diagonal across ...
— The Silent Places • Stewart Edward White
... Glenn and his man reached the valley above, and commenced a descent through the timber in a diagonal direction, that would conduct them, after numerous windings, to the edge of the frozen stream, along which a narrow pathway ran northward about a mile. Glenn paused at an abrupt angle in his descent, after having proceeded a few paces through the undergrowth, and stood long in wonderment and ...
— Wild Western Scenes • John Beauchamp Jones
... black and satiny, cut in the newest Dallas-approved style, with long, tantalizing diagonal slashes across the breast and hips. Her hair was strikingly two-toned, black and blonde. Her teeth were a blinding white, and had been filed to ...
— Get Out of Our Skies! • E. K. Jarvis
... low-gabled buildings surrounded an open court. All of the buildings were timbered, the diagonal beams of oak so old they were black in the sun, and the snowy whiteness of fresh plaster made them seem blacker still. The gabled roofs were of varying tones and tints; some were red, some mossy green, some as gray as the skin ...
— In and Out of Three Normady Inns • Anna Bowman Dodd


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